orthogonal

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The "treadmill" also employed two high-speed orthogonal cameras to capture unique locomotion features -- one a side view, the other from the bottom.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024

The technical term for each cherry red form is an orthotope, defined as “the Cartesian product of orthogonal intervals known as a hyperrectangle, sometimes called a parallelotope.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2022

Express v = 〈 8, −3, −3 〉 as a sum of orthogonal vectors such that one of the vectors has the same direction as u = 〈 2, 3, 2 〉 .

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

The normal vectors are orthogonal, so the corresponding planes are orthogonal as well.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

A younger and shorter stolon was supported so that it projected at about 45o above the horizon, and its movement was traced by the same orthogonal method.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles